UTC Institutional Review Board

For the Protection of Human Research Subjects

The UTC Institutional Review Board (IRB) is guided by the ethical principles regarding
all research involving humans as subjects. The mission of the IRB is to ensure that
vital research of the University can be conducted in full compliance with both the
letter and the spirit of regulations designed to protect the rights and welfare of
human subjects. The IRB also monitors research to ensure that human subjects are protected
from undue risk and from deprivation of personal rights and dignity. This protection
is assured by consideration of three principles that are the basis of ethical research:

Voluntary participation by the subjects, indicated by free and informed consent, is
assured.

An appropriate balance exists between potential benefits of the research to the subject
or to society and the risks assumed by the subject.

There be fair procedures and outcomes in the selection of research subjects.

In accordance with the Multiple Project Assurance on file with the Department of Health
and Human Services, the Institutional Review Board at the University of Tennessee
at Chattanooga must review and approve all research involving human subjects. The
Federalwide Assurance ID is FWA00004149.

For additional information such as submission procedures, review status, and other
general inquiries contact instrb@utc.edu. If you have been assigned an IRB number, please use it on all correspondence.

Day classes are cancelled, campus closed until 5 p.m. on Aug. 21

Although it was previously announced that all classes would be cancelled on Aug. 21, classes that begin at or after 5 p.m. will now be held. We apologize for any confusion or inconvenience.

Aug. 21, will be a historic day. Chattanooga will experience a 90 percent solar eclipse. To allow faculty, staff and students to safely participate in this once-in-a-lifetime event, day classes will be cancelled on Aug. 21, and UTC will be closed until 5 p.m., when night classes begin.